As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

My father was in the First World War.